On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 10:12:17 +0200 Renaud Allard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> 
> That's exactly what I have done. First moving to dovecot from UW-imap 
> and then switching to Maildir.
> 
> What you should know is that UW-imap keep a "beginning of mailbox" 
> message in your mbox. Dovecot doesn't, so all your users will receive 
> a mail like "this is the beginning of your mail folder, don't delete 
> this message". It's quite obvious that there is no risk in deleting 
> it because dovecot doesn't care about this message and shows it as a 
> real message. So your users  may be surprised if you don't tell them 
> before the switch.
> 

This may be true of Dovecot 0.99.x but Dovecot-1.0-testXX and 
Dovecot-1.0-stable (which is a "stable" version of the 1.0-test series 
intended for those needing 1.0-test features in production systems) 
understand the pseudo-message.

Best Wishes,
Chris

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Christopher Wakelin,                                [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IT Services Centre, The University of Reading,       Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8439
Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK                   Fax: +44 (0)118 975 3094


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